"With the weather we've had this year, we told the fans lined up to enter to enjoy the first real beautiful spring day outside of Scott Stadium. With this team's experience and maturity, they need less emotional support"

Diff beat writer tweeted that he didn't understand why they scheduled it to overlap with the baseball game. I responded that they do it every year and they just simply don't care about football, clearly

I can attest that there were several kids on the hill that were more interesting than the play on the field. After the game, I saw one 12-13 year old kid make a sweet one handed grab on a toss from one of his friends. Word has it that London wants to offer him.

I had promised a report on a different thread, and since there's one dedicated to the abyss known as Scott stadium, I'll post my report here. I worked at the stadium, so I subjected myself to the mess they call football at LOLUVA, so none of you have to.

Crowd was approximately 3,000-3,500. Keep in mind that the crowd includes the LOLUVA band (they're the ones in orange around the 30 yd line on the far side - approx. 50 or so members); the families of the players (who else would come and watch this voluntarily?); and recruits and their families (there were approximately 50 recruits, add about 2 family members per recruit, and you're talking about 150 people). In other words, very few of the people at the game would have been there as fans. Maybe 2,000. And the people who are happiest are those who didn't come. Very, very bad football.

It was more sad than funny. I haven't seen any stat lines, but there seemed to be very few completed passes. A nice catch on the first TD of the day, but it wasn't an exceptionally well thrown ball. Not to defend LOLUVA, but there were 18 or so players out with injuries, mostly starters. They had no receivers that could stretch the field, and if they did have one, they don't have anyone who could deliver the ball.

It would be pretty funny if Tech students organized a road trip to that, and just stood and did 'Let's Go...Hokies!' the whole time. Other than a random sorority objecting, I imagine that would be the only flak...

How hilarious would it be if we outnumbered their fans at their own spring game, singing our fight songs and just causing chaos.

We should wait until the next one is televised, although who knows when that one will be. The best way to go about doing this is to find the way to maximize the exposure of our brand owning their stadium.

And, ya know, today was absolutely gorgeous. Perfect day to head outside, tailgate, drink some booze, watch some football. Now, I realize Hoo fans weren't able to do that last thing on the list today, but they could've at least gone into the stadium to nap after their tailgate.

People are obviously given the opportunity to voice their opinion on Twitter, but I don't think the response was warranted and doesn't represent the VT community. The classy route would be to not respond or, if nothing else, not resort to personal attacks. Personally I'm glad that the TKP staff would never get into a spat like that on Twitter.

Trash talk is part of the rivalry and makes things fun. However, a personal attack, even if the person is obnoxious, from an essentially anonymous account that might be construed to represent the university, isn't appropriate. That's my 2 cents anyway.

Here's my take since everyone fancies themselves "fluent in sarcasm" these days: describing the conversation as classy added nothing to the humorous value of the post. Did you read the tweets and think, "oh, those are even more hilarious because it was described as classy yet it wasn't?" Since the intended sarcasm didn't add any value, the comment failed to function as sarcasm.

I'm not going to bother commenting any further, but I don't think TKP would be enjoyable to read if it largely consisted of twitter spats. Twitter is free and open to anyone who wants that kind of content.

Shake's right on here. I'm all for bashing LOLUVA fans and as the Vote for Maddy poll exhibits I don't mind taking it straight to them or anyone, but I have a few issues with this.

1) Nothing VtMaroonUni wrote was at all clever or interesting. It was just trash talk.
2) The douche from Cville is right. VTMUni is stalking a LOLUVA twitter feed. Why? That would be like reading the Sabre.
3) I believe classy would had been responding to something said about the Hokies, or at least responding with some whit. And not calling some dude a tool because he is supporting his team. This is what I expect from LOLUVA fans.

Sorry, I guess it's just me and Shake but I expect more, A LOT more, from Hokie fans when they throw down with fans. If you can't beat them with style then you shouldn't be playing in the first place.

It added something to it. It added irony which is humorous. You read classy and expected one thing, then you got something completely different.

Also your point to TKP is almost irrelevant since it will never become that. There's the occasional twitter spat from fans, current and former players, and coaches. Besides if someone was going to change their opinion of the university because of a fan website having occasional foul language or a non respectable comment their mind was already made up on the matter.

I don't really think something like this will have an impact on how people view TKP or VT unless it's more extreme and frequent.

I agree, maybe i should have put ****Sarcastica*** in front. My bad, but I did find it funny that he said stalk opponents twitter feed.. how did he see it?? I think the tool reference was because the kid kept coming back at the feed like it was directed at him...which it wasn't until he stepped in, its rivalry banter that obviously he didn't like.

No, you're absolutely right. That was my mistake as I don't understand sarcasm nor possess any sense of humor. That twitter fight was only rivaled in it's hilarity and classiness by it's relevance to the topic. If it were a recruit, I'd give it 5 stars and alert a bagman with close ties to the SEC.

I am finding this hard to believe, so I did a little research...
1) It was on Good Friday. 7pm.
2) It was raining.
3) No official report from the Athletic Department on attendance.
So I'm taking this with a grain of salt and probably chalking that specific number up as rumor mill fodder. The picture was probably taken towards the end of the game.

Since we're talking about numbers at Spring Games, I thought I'd share a thought I had this morning listening to the radio.

In central VA is a radio station called Hit Kicker 99.7 and every weekday morning on my way to work, they have some guy that they call "Coach" do the sports. Well, this morning he was talking about the UVA baseball team and the crowd of 14,000 or so they had at the game and he was like "That's some crowd I tell you."

Without missing a beat, I immediately said out loud, "That's because you're not used to seeing that at football games."

That "guy" they call coach is Sonny Randle. Former wahoo player and coach. He coached for two seasons (1974-75) and had a Mike-London-inspiring 5-17 record. His morning segments are on several radio stations in the Charlottesville area. While he has a folksy manner, I think his years in the NFL have removed any kind of logic from his brain. I think he may be the crazy uncle in the basement that Ross Perot referred to.

I knew that guy had to be a wahoo when he picked ECU to beat VT last season. I know it was absolutely possible, but he's on a radio station in VA and he picked ECU to upset a VA team on a VA radio station!

Only comparison I make is their manner of speaking, along with continuously talking about their former football programs as if they're the best teams out there, just in down years waiting to return to former glory...except there was no former glory for Sonny.